Big Kenny and Michael W. Smith take goodwill trip to Alabama

Big Kenny of country duo Big & Rich and Christian singer Michael W. Smith joined forces with international Christian relief organization Samaritan’s Purse earlier this week for a goodwill trip to tornado-savaged Alabama to lend a hand in the clean-up effort.

When they got there, Big Kenny said he was dumbfounded by the damage.

“(It's) just absolute, total devastation, like a bomb went off and everything's level,” he told WKRN News 2. “People are still roaming the streets down there, there are still some 400 people who aren't accounted for.”

As of Monday more than 18,000 Alabamians had applied for aid in the tornado’s wake, and Smith said he’s just afraid people will forget about the devastation in the state.

“We got Bin Laden on TV, so all of a sudden this tornado is not in the forefront of people's minds,” Smith told the news cameras. “Let’s rise up and do what we're good at in Tennessee, that's volunteer.”